After completing this course, you will understand:

• the relevance of style
• the concept of the dialogue recipe

You'll also know how to use punctuation to:

• indicate speech
• express interruptions and cut-offs
• show pauses and trailing-off speech
• convey that characters are talking over each other
• punctuate tagged speech
• punctuate ‘said’ and other tags
• punctuate broken-into dialogue
• work with direct address
• indicate faltering speech
• fix comma splices, early stops and false tags
• assess the suitability of semi-colons in dialogue.

I’ve also created a suite of downloadable practice questions and model answers so that you can test what you’ve learned.